All-Church Experience for 2022

What We've Done in Past Years
It's an annual tradition at First Church!

Each year, our church family is invited to join together in some year-long study and discussion. We've listed on this page a reminder of the variety of excellent things we've done during the past nine years. And we will continue to build on that foundation in 2022.

​Our first order of business was to read the Bible. We devoted 2012 to a cover-to-cover reading of the Old and New Testaments. But that approach was necessarily a survey.  Now, ten years later, we want to undertake a more in-depth look at selected parts of the Bible. 

We will meet by Zoom each week on Thursdays at 12:00 noon.  Here is the link we will use. 
Here is an accounting of what we have done together in previous years:
  • ​2012 -- The 3x5 Club
  • 2013 -- Daily Devotional Journal
  • 2014 -- Singing Through the Year with Wesley
  • 2015 -- Role Models in Righteousness
  • 2016 -- Christian Believer
  • 2017 -- A Conversation with God's Word
  • 2018 -- A Year Without Fear
  • 2019 -- The Methodist Pew
  • 2020 -- A 2020 Prayer Life
  • 2021 -- Christian Classics: Augustine's Confessions and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

Why Berea?

In the Book of Acts, we read about Paul's missionary journeys through Cyprus, Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece, as well as his eventual voyage to Rome.  Along the way, we are briefly introduced to the Macedonian city of Berea and the believers there.  And the narrator tells us that the Bereans "were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true" (Acts 17:11 NIV). 

For generations, Sunday School classes and Bible study groups have adopted the Bereans as their role models. We want to count ourselves among those believers who receive God's message with eagerness and who examine the Scriptures every day.  And so our year-long study for 2022 will take as its theme "A Year in Berea" as we examine the Scriptures together. 

During this year, we will read samples from the Old Testament law, the history books, the Psalms, the prophets, the Gospels. and the epistles. When we are done, we will have a better knowledge of the Bible as a whole, as well as a more complete and in-depth understanding of the thirteen books we will have read and discussed together. 

Our reading in 2022

Genesis
Psalms
Deuteronomy
Judges
January 6
​1-10
February 3
​1-25
February 24
​1-11
March 24
​1-12
January 13
11-23
February 17
​26-50
March 3
12-21
March 31
​13-21
January 20
​24-36
March 17
​51-75
March 10
​22-34
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​January 27
​37-50
April 7
76-100
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July 28
​101-125
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September 1
​126-150
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1 & 2 Samuel
1 & 2 Kings
Amos
Jeremiah
April 28
​1-7
June 16
​1-7
August 4
1-4
September 8
​1-15
May 5
​8-16
June 23
​8-14
August 11
​5-9
September 15
​16-32
May 12
​17-27
June 30
15-2
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September 22
​33-43
May 19
​28-5
July 7
3-13
-
September 29
​44-52
May 26
6-12
July 14
​14-25
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June 2
​13-24
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Matthew
Hebrews
1 Corinthians
October 6
​1-7
November 3
1-7
December 1
​1-6
October 13
​8-13
November 10
​8-10
December 8
​7-11
October 20
14-20
November 17
11-13
December 15
​12-16
October 27
​21-28
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Weekly reading and discussion schedule

Date
Book
Chapters
January 6
Genesis
1-10
January 13
Genesis
11-23
January 20
Genesis
24-36
January 27
Genesis
37-50
February 3
Psalms
1-25
February 10
(no class)
(no class)
February 17
Psalms
26-50
February 24
Deuteronomy
1-11
March 3
Deuteronomy
12-21
March 10
Deuteronomy
22-34
March 17
Psalms
51-75
March 24
Judges
1-12
March 31
Judges
13-21
April 7
Psalms
76-100
April 14
(no class)
​(no class)
April 21
(no class)
(no class)
April 28
1 Samuel
1-7
May 5
1 Samuel
8-16
May 12
1 Samuel
17-27
May 19
1 & 2 Samuel
28-5
May 26
2 Samuel
6-12
June 2
2 Samuel
13-24
June 9
(no class)
(no class)
June 16
1 Kings
1-7
June 23
1 Kings
8-14
June 30
1 & 2 Kings
15-2
July 7
2 Kings
3-13
July 14
2 Kings
14-25
July 21
(no class)
(no class)
July 28
Psalms
101-125
August 4
Amos
1-4
August 11
Amos
5-9
August 18
(no class)
(no class)
August 25
(no class)
(no class)
September 1
Psalms
126-150
September 8
Jeremiah
1-15
September 15
Jeremiah
16-32
September 22
Jeremiah
33-43
September 29
Jeremiah
44-52
October 6
Matthew
1-7
October 13
Matthew
8-13
October 20
Matthew
14-20
October 27
Matthew
21-28
November 3
Hebrews
1-7
November 10
Hebrews
8-10
November 17
Hebrews
11-13
November 24
(no class)
(no class)
December 1
1 Corinthians
1-6
December 8
1 Corinthians
7-11
December 15
1 Corinthians
12-16
December 22
(no class)
(no class)
December 29
(no class)
(no class)